The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-02-10
BRIC-A-BRAC.


Assago our grief, if ere you 90
You'll just fork over now thatV
We loaned you, Charlie, long ago.
A dissolving vicw-Growing blind
There are a great many Orange men in
Florida.
'That's flame Of miner us the bellows
said to the fire.
Evening shoes are again becoming quite |
fanciful in color and design.
1t costs over So, ZOO to bury dead Con- |
grcssman. Irish wakes are cheaper.
No woman Of fashion can have too much !
jet on the waist and skirt of her dress now
a-lays.
Reputation is what men and women think !
of us; character is what God and the angels |
know Of us.
Never take crooked path while you sec
a straight one.
'Pa," said little fellow to his unshavcn |
father, "your chin looks like tho wheel in |
the musical box"
Never growl at the weather. Noah did
not, and he witnessed 40 days of the wcttest
weather that man ever saw.
Il Say No. is the title of n new story.
1t sounds like husband answering a wiics
request for scalsliin cloak
"What ails this heart Of mine?" is the
mGiodious way in which some vocalists
refer to an affection of the liver.
An exchange speaks of a man who "lics
in critical condition." Most everybody
Will lie when they get in tight fix.
BY rubbing cats back in the dark you
can see the electricity fly, and when the cat
claws your hand you can feel the shock.
A1ihnuUl, 1icfc IT,
appear in tho ring they arc generally ropcd
into it,
lnquircr-No. 1t was not Sir Wm. Penn.
but plain VIM. Penn; there was no handle
to that Penn.
The man who thinks he can communi-
cate freely by telephone is laboring under
a halioCsinalion.
some one wants to know if q bee is angry
wien 1t slngS. We arc not sure about the
bcc but the victim is.
1t is said there is a bitter feeling among
the ma!Stcrs. Perhaps somebody has been
putting hops in the beer!
pythagOras believed that man assembled
from the bean. He probably would have
regarded Bostonians us canni6als.
Ladies' hats nowadays arc somewhat
too aspiring for the convenience of the folks
Mr.. Onion has just failed out in Ncbras-
ka: but it cannot be said that he has not n
scent 10 his name.
4 burlington mother has miraculously
cured her youngest hopeful of smoking by
the laying on Of hands
When MIR. Carpenter married Miss Barber
last week, not newspaper in the land said
anything about the future race of shavcrs.
wa Irr,4
spoken TO each other for 80 years, They
are deaf mutes
A. Frcnchman has conceived the idea of
having lady advertisers who will show his
goods on the promenade
Pernicious cgotism is another mans de-
sire to tell you about himself when Won
wish TO tell him about yourself.
When an idlcr enters the sanctum of a
n'iSy cIltot and the editor says, "Glad to
sec you're back" what does he mean?
The singer who understands the manage
mcrt OF his breath is considered n rrCnt
artist. 1t ought to be the same way with
barber.
"But," said the sercnadcd man, 81 must
90 out and make speech. Something
m"s he done to stop the playing of that
band"
y newly married Texas man shot his
bride while She was mixing her first batch
of biscuits. His plea in court was self.
defence
''Ics," said the Tcrrc Haute man; I'm
rather glad, on the whole, that there's n
L." against gambling on Sunday. 1t gives
us one day to saw wood"
\ maiden lady says that if single life is
b!,I 1t stands to reason that double life is
twice as bad. But ladies rarely understand
mathematics.
'i here is nothing new under the sun.
a"ycih the psalmist." This seems to bear
"U! the theory that negro minstrclsy orgi-
mated in the ark.
Why is it that woman with n costly
ian finds the atmosphere in the theatre SO
warm while the man next to her is think
inS Of putting on his ovcrcoat?
Chicago clcrgymcn sincerely hope the
ballet is on its last legs 1,gua.
The clcrgymCn have evidently given care.
lul attention to the support of the ballet.
An Oakland, Cal, paper in rcferrinr 70
the death Of a citizen RECENTLY, said thai he
''hnd gone to happier home" And now.
1t IS said, the widow threatens libel suit
AS protection against cold, ncwspopcr
worn across the chest is recommended. |
Gentlemen who had newspaper WARMING |
can testify to its thoroughncss.
The wife of q Wisconsin editor brings |
her habys cradle into the Office while she |
'c:s type for her husbands paper She is
Il GOOD type Of woman for an editors wife,
IT is mean servant girl who, to gratifv
petty malice, will put Goldfish on the
Nngc to boil when she knows that her mis-.
rcSs is entertaining company in the parIor.
An oyster ten inches long was found on
he Long Island coast the other day. When
oysters get up to these dimensions the
'hcS'nut church fair stew will lose.
a professor Of palmistry in New Yo k
says 1t is impossible to tell {. lie with the
iand8 c!osrd.-E". Yes, and !. is rather
dangerous TO tell man he lies who has his
lands 'ClOSCd."
n young lady writes to inquire how long
Young gentleman should be ACQUAINTED
WIN her before She allowed him 10 kiss
heI. Long enough for her father and bio
brother to have gone to bed.
y man who had been drinking wont
nome thc other night and growlcd so oI Lis
wllc that She called him her sour mosh
! lc said that if she called him that a"ain